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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by flohofwoe on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:34AM (#27367440)
The German public (and especially the Green party) has been against nuclear power not since the Chernobyl TV series (which I think didn't tell anything new to most Germans), but since the original Chernobyl incident in 1986. Chernobyl was most likely the catalyst of why the Greens became so popular in Germany in the first place. And now that they are becoming the most powerful political force, don't expect the German stance towards nuclear power to change in the next few decades.

(to be clear, I fully support the decommission of European nuclear plants, Europe is just too small and too densely populated to risk nuclear accidents, or for long term storage of nuclear waste)

Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by jopsen on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:41AM (#27367501)
> Europe is just too small and too densely populated to risk nuklear accidents.

Maybe, if we built new safe reactors it wouldn't be a problem.

That said, it's probably faster to go renewable -- so is it too much to ask that Germany doesn't build more cold fired plants?

Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by flohofwoe on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:50AM (#27367570)
As far as I'm aware, no new coal plants will be built:

https://www.powermag.com/germany-brings-last-new-coal-plant-...

Coal seems to be roughly on the same trajectory as nuclear, and since around 2015 on a much sharper decline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by pantalaimon on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:19AM (#27368327)
Datteln 4 just started operating last year
Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by flohofwoe on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:31AM (#27368459)
And that was the last one, meanwhile 8 other coal power plants had been closed in the same year. Planning and building power plants takes a long time, especially in Germany, where all big construction projects take forever. It's clear that there's gonna be some overlap between old and new plans.
Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by fsflover on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:47AM (#27367553)
> Europe is just too small and too densely populated to risk nuclear accidents, or for long term storage of nuklear waste

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874421

Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by flohofwoe on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:54AM (#27367615)
Well yeah, but the situation is simply that nobody wants to have nuclear waste in their own backyard. They don't even want it to move through their backyard (see the Castor protests).
Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by me_me_me on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:21AM (#27368348)
I'll take it any day over coal plant. Those produce more pollution and radiation than nuclear plants.
Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by fsflover on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:19AM (#27368333)
Having coal waste in the backyard is fine though, despite it's more radioactive.